Aldo Colombini

When Aldo published his book Double Decker (routines with two decks of cards) little did he know what he was getting into. He really enjoyed studying the routines and consequently he went into a frenzied quest for more. It is amazing how many he found! Here’s a new collection of routines using two (or three) decks of cards. Have fun studying the routines and, above all, performing them all for your audiences.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:

• COLORS CAN’T MIX (Karl Fulves)
• THOT CARD TO POCKET (Martin Gardner)
• CRISS-CROSS COINCIDENCE (Ian Adair)
• PACKED BAGS (Aldo Colombini)
• TURN BLUE (Ken Krenzel)
• DOUBLE CLOCK DECEPTION (John Yeager) ...

Commercial card magic at its best. All practical effects which you will use.

• COLOR CHANGE AGAIN (John Yeager): A color changing deck routine involving two selected cards.
• MATCHED PICTURE CARDS (Nick Trost): The picture cards are shuffled and magically they match up in pairs.
• DOORSTEP ACES (Paul Gordon): The four Aces find three selected cards.
• REPROCESSED ELIMINATION (J.K. Hartman): A selected card appears in an unexpected way. Very strong effect.
• RANDOM THOT (Karl Fulves): An impossible selected card revelation that will fool you too!
• JACKS IN THE BOX (Aldo Colombini): Red and black cards alternate and then...

Packet tricks performed with regular cards! Packet Tricks are always popular. Using only a few cards you can perform very strong, baffling, visual magic. Here you have ten packet tricks from the world's top 'packet trick' experts.

Contents:

• JAPANESE ACES (Shigeo Futagawa): A real fooler where you and the spectator mix the Aces three times (the last one face up and face down) but the Aces always separate!
• POOR MAN'S MONTE (Richard Vollmer): A fun-to-watch-fun-to-do Monte type routine using only four regular cards!
• AN AMBITIOUS CLASSIC (Larry Jennings): The A, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Clubs perform an ambitious routine...

An amazing presentation in five phases of this classic poker demonstration! Using only ten cards you show an entertaining five-phase poker demonstration and, of course, you always win! It is suitable for both close-up and stage. Use any deck of cards (even jumbo cards).

You do not require a table to perform these routines. From this material you can create two complete acts.

CLEAN CUT ROPE (Aldo Colombini): A different way to perform the standard cut and restored rope effect!

STRANGER IN PARADISE (Ed Marlo): A red-backed deck is placed in a glass. You remove cards one at a time until a spectator says ‘stop.’ At the stop, that card is the only one with a blue back!

DOGGIE DEXTERITY (Aldo Colombini): Comedy at its best with a balloon twisted into a poodle who finds a selected card!

CARD ON PLATE (Ken de Courcy): You spin a plate with one hand and have...

This is Aldo's second volume of impromptu card tricks. Once again the rules that he required were simple: That the tricks be based on subtle moves and principles only rather than difficult sleights. Most importantly, the tricks had to be totally impromptu with no set-ups. Eventually he did, however, allow a few easy moves such as a card control, a force or a simple sleight; moves that still are very easy to master and perform.

Tricks are organized into the following categories. The last one is a section on simple sleights and procedures:

• The Four Aces
• Amazing Coincidences
• Baffling Revelations ...

90 amazing card tricks by some of the most recognized magicians (including three past FISM winners), with stringent conditions: no set-ups and no sleights. organized into the following sections:

• Selected Cards
• Aces and Gambling
• Mental Discoveries
• Spelling Effects
• Amazing Coincidences
• Lie Detectors

This time Aldo is offering you very strong routines that require a little bit more sleight of hand than those he usually puts in print. Aldo has built his reputation on fairly easy material with simple and subtle moves. In this ebook he has kept the subtleties, but he is giving you more difficult routines which are geared toward pleasing not only the viewers, but yourself and your 'ego.'

Aldo uses the first five routines as an entire act.

1st edition 1996; 33 pages.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Heat
• The Dirty Dozen
• A Case of Stairs
• The Seventh Floor
• Meet Charley
• Ace-mbly
• It's...

A compilation of wonderful rope routines. A funny cut and restored rope routine for kids; a unique routine in which six loops are counted, three of these loops link together and the other three change into a giant loop with three knots (no gimmick); and Rope and silks combination.

There are also two rope routines by Ronald Dayton (a comedy effect and a rope through neck effect) and more. 84 illustrations. No gimmicks and all the routines except the first one use the same rope over and over again (no cutting).

1st edition 1996; 20 pages.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Tubulos
• K-not...

Here is Aldo's latest effort on putting together smart comebacks, insults and one-liners. Besides insults and comebacks you will also find a section with various funny one-liners to use during your shows. Although Aldo wrote the lines with SHE or HE, the subject can be, of course, easily switched. Please be aware that some one-liners are crude and/or contain ‘blue’ material.

1st edition 2010; 19 pages.

Twenty routines by Aldo Colombini, plus a bonus section of 10 routines by: Ken de Courcy, Didier Dupré, Karl Fulves, Paul Gordon, G. W. Hunter, Milton Kort, Max Maven, Werner Miller, Herb Rungay, Geoffrey Scalbert. Impromptu routines, four-ace revelations, predictions, oil and water and more. Illustrated with 33 photographs.

1st edition 2008; 32 pages.

Here you have 25 completely new card routines not found in any of Aldo's other ebooks! Includes gems such as: Contact Colors, Punch Its Match and many more.

• Hofzinser 2000
• Oil, Water and Guts
• Wild, Wild Best
• Underground Spies
• Interchange
• Jump and Pass
• Imaginary Journey
• Punch His Match!
• Contact Colors
• Deep Impact
• Count On Them
• Birthday Card
• The Game's Afoot
• Y2K Deck
• The Erasers
• 4'Wave
• Cut It Out
• Holy Moly
• Falling Through
• Italian Poker
• Point Of No Return
• Red and Black Crash
• A Trio Band
• Fact or Fiction
• Collector Sandwich

1st edition 2009; 26 pages.

To my knowledge, this is the best collection of tricks and routines with two decks ever put together in a book or ebook. Twenty effects by the most renowned names in magic: Coincidences, change of color, transpositions, etc.

The contributors are: Alex Elmsley, Karl Fulves, Tony Bartolotta, Edmund Balducci, Ken Krenzel, Aldo Colombini, Roy Walton, J.K. Hartman, Roy Scott, Stanley Jaks, Nick Trost, Arthur Setterington, Francis Haxton, U.F. Grant, Gus Southall and Martin Gardner. A great book with lots of photographs.

• THE RED AND THE BLUE (Alex Elmsley)
• MENTAL MATES (Karl Fulves)
• SYNCHRONISM (Tony Bartolotta)
• THE ALL-FAIR COINCIDENCE (Edmund...

Coin magic is usually very difficult to perform, and requires sleight of hand and manipulation. In this ebook, you will find seven very strong coin routines requiring NO SLEIGHTS AT ALL and totally impromptu using ordinary coins. We predict you will never stop doing them. Although in the description Aldo use American coins, any coins from any country can be used and can be borrowed from the spectators.

1st edition 2008; 14 pages.

Twenty-five incredible impromptu routines performed with just a regular deck of cards (and, of course, all different from Aldo's other ebooks).

Contributors: Howard Adams, Gene Castillon, Aldo Colombini, Tom Daugherty, Ken de Courcy, Karl Fulves, Martin Gardner, Dougie Gibbard, Paul Gordon, J. K. Hartman, Tom Hubbard, Marty Kane, Werner Miller, André Robert, Lin Searles, Tom Sellers, Floyd Shotts, Stephen Tucker.

1st edition 2008; 18 pages.

An amazing 12 card revelation routine. This routine is almost an entire act - you reveal 12 selected cards in an explosion of magic and with a crescendo demonstration of sleight-of-hand. A real "reputation maker"! Use any deck of cards.

1st edition 2004; 18 pages.

Over 70 puzzles, brain teasers, stunts and magic tricks with matches (or toothpicks or even straws). You will be the talk of the party. Keep your audiences occupied for hours. You need just a box of matches and you can do miracles.

1st edition 2007; 30 pages.

A Koncise Kollaborative Kompendium of Kommercial Killer Kount Kreations for Kontemporary Klose-up Kard Konjurors. Over 30 routines using Steve Beam’s Killer Count by Peter Duffie, Aldo Colombini and Robin Robertson. Four Ace tricks, cards across, mentalism, discoveries, spelling effects, comedy routines, a fantastic diary trick and much more.

1st edition 2009; 26 pages.

Here you have a collection of comedy signs that you may use as an MC or as an entertaining funny spot for any act. Just select the ones you like, print them in cardstock (laminate them if you want so they last forever) and just present them to your audiences. We would not suggest that you use them all at once but just a few (seven or ten seems a fair number).

You get a total of 36 signs.

Here’s a unique handling for the “Professor’s Nightmare” rope routine that you’ll use in your act.

WHAT THE AUDIENCE SEES:

The magician cuts a length of rope into three pieces of different lengths; small, medium and long. The three pieces are stretched until they appear to be all the same length. The three pieces of rope are then tied together. The knots vanish and apparently the rope is fully restored. Until now the effect is a standard one. But wait…here comes the incredible finale! One knot is magically thrown back onto the rope then jumps away leaving the rope completely...

• Centrifugal Diary: Peter Duffie
• Have a Date: Aldo Colombini
• The Flexible Diary: Peter Duffie and Robin Robertson
• The Diary of Expectation: Peter Duffie
• Freedom Diary: Peter Duffie and Aldo Colombini
• Versatile Diary: Peter Duffie, Aldo Colombini and Robin Robertson
• Happy Birthday: Aldo Colombini
• Zodiac Month: Aldo Colombini

1st edition 2009; 22 pages.

20 new packet tricks. Packet tricks are always popular and here you have a great collection of routines from many experts in this field.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:

• IMPACT (Roy Walton)
• MORE AMAZEMENT (Luis Gavilondo)
• A ROYAL SEPARATION (Francis Haxton)
• HAMMAN FIVE CARD REPEAT (Stephen Tucker)
• COME BACK QUEENS (Lin Searles)
• SHORT WAVE (J.K. Hartman)
• FIVE IN A ROW (Nick Trost)
• ELMER'S WEDDING (Peter Duffie)
• ACES & JACKS (Stewart Judah)
• STRANGE SANDWICH (Aldo Colombini)
• THE LIGHTWEIGHT TRICK (Manfred Bacia)
• ALL RED (Sam Schwartz)
• STENDARDO (Aldo Colombini)
• OIL AND WATER (Stewart Judah) ...

A unique rope routine with over 20 effects.

Here Aldo created a wonderful rope routine in eleven phases where rope is stretched, cut, restored, knotted and so forth:

• Phase 1: Stretching the Ropes
• Phase 2: Two Ropes Become One
• Phase 3: The Rope With Four Ends
• Phase 4: Cut And Restored Rope
• Phase 5: A Rope With No Ends
• Phase 6: A Knot In A Loop Mystery
• Phase 7: The Ends Are Back
• Phase 8: The Traveling Ends
• Phase 9: The Vanishing Knot
• Phase 10: Knotty Knots
• Phase 11: Silk Off Rope

1st edition 2010; 15 pages.

An ebook with stunning routines using ordinary dice and a deck of cards. These effects are ALL DIFFERENT from the routines in Aldo's two DVD volumes produced by Meir Yedid and called Card and Dice Deceptions.

Contributors include: Howard Adams, Charles Brent, Aldo Colombini, Tom Daugherty, Karl Fulves, Thomas Henry, Stewart James, Lewis Jones, Stewart Judah, Marty Kane, Harry Lorayne, Max Maven, Norm Osborn and Robin Robertson. You will love these routines.

1st edition 2006; 54 pages.